Douglas W Krieger q CoAuthor of THE FINAL

Douglas W. Krieger q. Co-Author of THE FINAL BABYLON; SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS; THE TWO WITNESSES, Co-Author: Blood on the Altar & Uncommon Sense q. Editor of the Tribnet. org & Admin. Tribnet 7000 – Blog /FB q. Educator – Public Schools – Teacher/Administrator q. General Building Contractor – Retail/Whs. q. Public Relations – Exc. Dir. National Prayer Breakfast in Honor of Israel with the National Religious Broadcasters – 1980 s q. Multnomah University – Multnomah School of the Bible q. B. A. /Ed Admin. CSUS and CSULA (Sacramento/Los Angeles) q. Veteran – U. S. Army q. Married – 49 Years – 3 children – Grand Kids (growing number) www. tribnet. org q. Born, raised and living in Sacramento, California

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY 2017 – DENVER, COLORADO DENVER PROPHECY SUMMIT “You, the nations (ethos), were then in the flesh. . . that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL, and strangers of the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world” (Ephesians 2: 11 -12).

INTRODUCTION 1. Commonwealth Theology (CT) – Presents a Consolidation of present-day evangelical theologies which conform to a more Biblical basis for the Church’s relationship to today’s Israel – on a corporate level. 2. CT – Presents a more organic; yet, spiritually vibrant relationship between Jews and Christians. 3. Distinguishes itself from Catholic, Reform, Evangelical. Dispensationalism, and even Messianic (Jewish-Christian) theologies, as well as eschatologies.

Then there is Ephesians 2: 11 -14 in which the blood of Messiah establishes the citizenship in the wider Commonwealth of Israel. All this will come as an epiphany, a new and glorious awakening. When Messianics see Israel as the spiritual House, and there is a reunited, restored, and renewed Israel United, both a congregation and a nation, a devotion and a loyalty to Israel's promised Messiah in the dual office of Melchizedek, this will cause an epic paradigm shift that will bring the promised peace of Jerusalem. Israel will eventually be seen as the spiritual household we see in Scripture that both Moses and Peter spoke about, a crosslinked "royal priesthood and a holy nation". Gavin Finley Blood Moons and the Signs in the Heavens

Terminology 1. Aliens – Alienated – 2. Commonwealth – Polity – State 3. Church = Ekklesia = Called out ones 4. Israel = Judah/Ephraim 5. Gentiles = Ethnos =

1. 2. 3. 4. Four Theological Paradigms Israel & the Church Replacement Theology Dispensationalism Identity – British Israelism Commonwealth Theology

SUMMATION of THREE MAIN THEOLOGIES RE: ISRAEL & THE CHURCH 1. Replacement: NO Distinction – NO Separation 2. Dispensationalism: YES Distinction – YES Separation 3. Commonwealth: YES Distinction – NO Separation

The STICK OF EPHRAIM Ezekiel 37: 15 -28 • Refuting: Ephraim’s Two House Theology – • (A) Israelites (Ephraim) did not merge with Judah and become “the Jews” • (B) Ephraim did not disappear “per se” • (C) Placement of the Ezk. 37 prophecy • (D) Awakening of “Whole House of Israel” • Valley of Dry Bones

10 NORTHERN TRIBES DISAPPEARANCE 1. King David’s Census of Israel – Range: 800, 000 to 1, 100, 000 (1 Chron. 21: 5; 2 Sam. 24: 9) 2. Separation after King Solomon in 929 BC 3. Blood Feud between King Rehoboam and King Jeroboam – The 42 Kings 4. Sieges of the Assyrian Kings – 740 -712 BC – 5. 2 Chron. 5: 26; 2 Kings 15: 29; 17: 3 -6 18: 11 -12

WHAT HAPPENED TO EPHRAIM? “When Ephraim saw his sickness, And Judah saw his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb; Yet he cannot cure you, nor heal you of your wound. . . None of them calls upon Me. Ephraim has mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake unturned. Aliens have devoured his strength, but he does not know it. . . Aliens would swallow it up. . . Israel is swallowed up; NOW THEY ARE AMONG THE GENTILES (i. e. the NATIONS). . . Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers. Yes, though they have hired among the nations. . . As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly alike a bird. . . My God will cast them away, because they did not obey Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations” (Excerpts Hosea)

WHAT DOES PAUL SAY? Even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved. ” “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people, ’ There they shall be called sons of the living God. ” (Rom. 9: 24 -26; Hosea 1: 10; 2: 23)

JEZREEL = “GOD WILL SOW” v Hosea 3: 22 -23 v Hosea 1: 10 -11; 2: 1 v ROMANS 11: 13, 25 -27. . . Psalm 106: 26 -27 v Abraham – Isaac – Jacob – Joseph/Ephraim – MULTITUDE OF NATIONS = FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES – Gen. 18: 18; 48: 19

JEZREEL = GOD WILL SOW #2 v. Colossians 1: 27 – “Make known among the nations” v. Isaac’s 430 -years of PROMISE – “S”EED – Genesis 26: -6 – Exodus 12: 40 -41; Gal. 3: 15 -18; 4: 28 v. THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID – Acts 15: 14 -17 v. He sowed, scattered the Seed and now gathers. . .

Eph. 3: 4 -6 “By which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs (synkleroma), of the same body (sysoma or cobody), and partakers of His promise (synmetoka – singular promise) in Christ through the gospel. . .

Synkleroma, sysoma synmetoka– all starting with the prefix “syn, ” from which we get English words like synchronize, synthesize, and synergy. First is synkleroma—“co-heirs. ” This legal term suggests not just an equality of shared privilege, as in two business but instead it is more like two “blood-brothers” who have utterly bound themselves together, totally dependent on each other for whatever inheritance, hope, and success they can expect to receive from their common father. In Messiah, we Jews won’t get our ultimate inheritance from the father until the nations get theirs—and vice-versa!

Second is sysoma—“co-body” people, “of one body. ” INTRINSICALLY ONE BODY Last is synmetoka—“partakers of the same promise” in Christ Jesus. “Promise” is in the singular, not “promises. ” In keeping with the rest of Paul’s writings, we can understand him to be specifically referring to the pre-figured, Gospel promise made to Abraham, as taught in Romans 4, 8: 17, and Galatians 3: 26 -29. Romans 4: 11 -17 brings together these ideas from Ephesians 3: 6, and other chapters in this book.

CLARIFING “ALL ISRAEL” – “ISRAEL OF GOD” “NOT ALL ISRAEL IS ISRAEL” & THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Romans 11: 26 -27 – “All Israel” Galatians 6: 16 – “Israel of God” Romans 9: 6 -7 – “Not all Israel who are of Israel” Revelation 2: 9; 3: 9 – “Synagogue of Satan” Romans 7 – “Divorce and Remarriage”

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #1 CT distinguishes itself from Replacement Theology, Dispensationalism, Identity Theologies by accepting both the House of Judah (the Jews) and the House of Ephraim (purposefully sown among the nations – a “people called out from among the nations”) to be the Whole House of Israel – both form the Commonwealth of Israel – that ELECT throughout the ages from Adam onward who constitute the “people of God. ”

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #2 CT is emboldened to recognize the prophetic ingathering of BOTH HOUSES into the Household of Faith at the close of the age – and sees in the rebirth of the State of Israel the prophetic fulfillment of that ingathering – primarily of Judah in anticipation of their Redeemer, the Deliverer, the Messiah whom we “called out from among the nations” attest to be the Son of David, the Son of God and the Son of Man.

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #3 We declare that the, God has sown (Jezreel) the seed of Ephraim, among the nations, and though they are swallowed up by the nations—yes, notwithstanding, ALIENS, NON-CITIZENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISERAEL— yet, His SHEEP hear His voice and are known of Him – He has come to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel and they have heard His voice and, like the Prodigal Son who was dissipated and had totally forfeited his inheritance – like the Harlot of Hosea who was no longer a people and had sold herself for hire among the nations – yet BOTH the Prodigal and the Harlot has “come to themselves” and have returned to the LORD, to the Father, to her Husband – and though they were NOT THE PEOPLE OF GOD – they have become THE PEOPLE OF GOD.

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #4 We affirm that there is but ONE OLIVE TREE – Made up of Natural and Wild Branches – sustained by the ROOT THAT BEARS THEM! We affirm that the Stick of Judah and the Stick of Ephraim prophecy found in Ezekiel 37: 15 -28 has not been fulfilled in fullness but is fast upon us and that these Two Sticks, Two Houses, Two Branches – SHALL BE ONE IN THE HAND OF THE LORD!

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #5 We affirm that there is but ONE BRIDE OF MESSIAH – comprised of Judah and Ephraim – of the Jew and of the Greek – that is the Plan and Purpose of the almighty and always has been. Many of us affirm that the Ladder of Jacob as highlighted by Jesus in John 1 to Nathaniel is the Son of Man who brings heaven to Earth as the Son of God and brings mankind into heaven, if you would, as the Son of Man but who shall establish His BETHEL – House of God upon the Earth as did Jacob!

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #6 Many of us affirm that God has always designed TWO WITNESSES – Judah of Israel to the Gentile World Powers to be a Light to the Gentiles – and the Congregation of the Living God (now seated in “heavenly places in Christ”) to be a witness to “principalities and powers in heavenly places in Christ”) – but the Deliverer shall come out of Zion and once and for all demolish these dimensional barriers of the seen and unseen and there shall be ONE KING OVER THEM BOTH—the Stick of Judah and the Stick of Ephraim.

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #7 Many of us affirm that the Law was fulfilled in Christ—the Law of Christ—and that it is holy and undefiled. Indeed, the Law was given as our schoolmaster to bring us to Messiah – how can something that brings us to the Messiah be onerous or unsanctified? Therefore, we give grace to those among us of the nations who please Him to affirm the “commandments of God” but “have the testimony of Jesus. ”

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #8 Many of us affirm that the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11 – the Two Olive Trees and the Two Lampstands could readily be the corporate witness of Judah (Israel) to the Gentiles World Powers at the end of the age; and the Two Lampstands the corporate witness of Ephraim (“the elect from among the nations” – the Ekklesia) to the principalities and powers in the last days.

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #9 Therefore, many of us affirm that the New Heaven and New Earth commence when the Glorified Man sets His foot upon the Mt. of Olives. We reject outright the notion that today’s Jerusalem is Babylon the Great, the Great City of the Revelation.

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #10 Many of us affirm that the New Heavens and the New Earth is NOT postponed until the Eschaton but occurs nigh immediately when the Glorified Son of Man sets His foot upon the Mt. of Olives (Zechariah); therefore, there are NOT two Holy Cities, Two Sanctuaries, nor does the Bride of Messiah spin around the Earth like a Satellite somewhere in the ionosphere – she descends to the Earth – Therefore, the vision seen by Ezekiel in Ezk. 40 -48 and that seen by John the Apostle in Revelation 21 is MULTI-DIMENSIONAL – it is both HEAVENLY and UPON THE EARTH – it can be explained in no other fashion – we are simply limited by our poor puny minds to comprehend: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for them that love Him!”

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #11 The Word of God persistently calls the followers of Yeshua either Jew or Gentile—distinguishing the two well after Pentecost – yes, there is “neither Jew nor Greek in Christ” but neither is there “male or female” but there certainly are brothers and sisters in Christ; ipso facto, there are Jews and Greeks in Christ (Acts 15: 5 -20; 18: 2, 24; 19: 17; 21: 20; 21: 39; 22: 3; Rom. 1: 16; 2: 10; 3: 29; 1 Cor. 1: 24; Gal. 2: 14 -15; 1 Cor. 12: 13; Col. 3: 11. There is “neither Jew nor Greek” – but that is IN CHRIST, but not “By Nature. ” There is NO SEPARATION in Christ - yet, prophetically there is IN NATURE distinction between the Jew and the Greek.

COMMONWEALTH THEOLOGY SUMMARY - #12 It is our affirmation that the strongest bulwark against Antisemitism in the Last Days is Commonwealth Theology where today’s Jew/Judah is given a major prophetic role at the end of the age but WITH the Stick of Ephraim – the “elect called out from among the nations. ” We, the “Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” have but One Shepherd, One Flock, One Stick IN THE HAND OF THE LORD.

Hosea 11: 8 -11 --New King James Version (NKJV) 8 “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I set you like Zeboiim? My heart churns within Me; My sympathy is stirred. 9 I will not execute the fierceness of My anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim. For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in your midst; And I will not come with terror 10 “They shall walk after the LORD. He will roar like a lion. When He roars, Then His sons shall come trembling from the West; 11 They shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt, Like a dove from the land of Assyria. And I will let them dwell in their houses, ” Says the LORD.